Posted
by
Soulskill
on Friday March 02, 2012 @11:54AM
from the movie-rights-already-sold-to-syfy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A privately employed solar scientist named Pete Riley estimates there's a 12 percent chance of a massive solar storm comparable to the Carrington Event in 1859 which resulted in breathtaking aurorae across the United States and other temperate regions of the globe. The electromagnetic surge from the 1859 event caused failures of telegraph systems across Europe and North America. A similar storm today could knock out power grids, GPS and communication satellites, data centers, transportation systems, and building and plumbing infrastructures and wreak $1 trillion or more of economic damage in the first year alone, according to a 2008 report from the National Academy of Sciences."

I would think that electronically controlled sewage treatment plants are at risk. Most people don't think about where their poo goes, but once it starts going nowhere, it will pile up very quick for communities.

I would think that electronically controlled sewage treatment plants are at risk. Most people don't think about where their poo goes, but once it starts going nowhere, it will pile up very quick for communities.

Yes. I saw a documentary on the history channel about this. According to the program, the best protection is to get two sticks of Hazel, and use them to douse for ley lines near your house. Any device within 50 meters of a ley line should be protected using a conical cosmic ray deflector, which should be gently placed on top of the gadget, with the tip pointing skyward (don't point it at the ground, you'll just wake up the sleeping aliens!). Be warned that this won't fully protect your touchscreen devices though. There's something odd about capacitive devices, which will require your pet cat to be earthed at all times before they are fully protected. Those cuddly critters are serious conductors of cosmic rays. I've also gone to the extent of hanging some garlic on my front door too. Not sure what that does, but I figured it couldn't hurt....

Screw that, don't buy into this so-called 'conical cosmic ray deflector', which is probably some sort of fraudulent device.

Everyone knows that only Real Brazilian Power Crystals(tm) can actually help with this. Even the FDA would not deny that it is possible in English to have said that these crystals were very efficacious for dealing with solar storms and rheumatism.